okay: problem solved — it looks like the AU and VSTi components of the plug-in weren’t actually in phase: while my DAW uses the audio unit, the stand alone version uses the VSTi instead… what puzzles me is the Product Manager should have detected that the VSTi component needed an update: I had to force it by hand.
Thanks for your suggestions… I first tried to fix the issues with the PM program: unfortunately, it doesn’t see anything wrong with the way my ezx are installed, whereas the web version does; and from within my DAW, the EZD plug-in AU component 2.0.2 can access any ezx without a hitch, as does the SD plug…
As a matter of fact, it’s only the stand alone version of EZdrummer 2.1.4 that has issues when loading some (not all) of my ezx; and those that have issues aren’t the oldest or the most recent ones: for instance, both funk masters, the latin percs, or the hip hop drums; some of them (seventies rock, southern soul…) don’t even show in EZD’s load menu!
no: this functionality is not available in SD2; you’ll have to decipher that cryptic name yourself, knowing each group of characters stands for a level in the file-tree…
you paid [extra] money to buy [real] grooves played by excellent [human] drummers, and you’d rather have them sound as if they were machine-generated… isn’t that actual perversion?
Humanizing must occasionally be turned off; at least two situations come to mind:
1. with dual-kick kits, humanized midi patterns will insist on unrealistically alternating every other bass-drum hits between each kick, even when the pattern is already programmed internally to switch kicks on purpose, I mean in the case of a pattern programmed to switch to kick 1 (i.e. midi note 36) and to kick 2 (i.e. midi note 35 or 34) intentionally…
2. I’ve come across situations where loud snare cracks ruined the track consistency by happening sporadically, and couldn’t be controlled by velocity: this could only be solved by turning the H option off!
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